Complete newbie question

Darician said:

Some people believe in partitioning. I believe it's a waste of time in many cases though. What you can do in Windows 7 (assuming there isn't anything important on Drive D:), go to Computer Management (Go to Start --> Right-Click on Computer, Click on Manage). After that, click on Disk Management, then look for where partition D:, assuming it's all on one drive, right-click on the D: partition, and hit "Delete Volume". Then to use that dead space, you can right click on the C: partition and hit "Extend Volume" and extend it to the maximum space and you should have full use of everything on the C: drive.

I've deleted volume D, so now have OS C: and a large block of free space, however the option to extend volume is greyed out and I can't select it...

Do I need to rename the C drive?

I can follow the guide until step 7/8, but when attempting either i receive an error message "there is not enough usable free space on specified disk to extend the volume" on step 7, or if i manually type a size i get "virtual disk service error: there is not enough usable space for this operation."

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To be 100% certain of giving you the correct advice, we need the output of Disk Management.

You need to:

1. Run Disk Management
2. Maximize the display you see.
3. Make a snippet using the Snipping Tool
4. Attach that snippet ( a PNG file) to your next post.

WIN key is the one with the wavy flag on it.

WIN | type DISKMGMT.MSC | ENTER key
Maximize the display
WIN | type SNIPPING | ENTER key
Attach to your next post.

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Jonesyboyuk,

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Lordbob75 said:

Can you post a screen shot of disk management? I think you might need to delete the free space and make it unallocated space instead.

~Lordbob

Thanks for all your help. This solved my problem. Deleted the space , then right clicked and expanded volume.